RELINQUISH
(US, NR, 2004, 5 min)
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.

FILMMAKER SCHEDULED TO ATTEND!

In a moment of crisis, Haley must decide whether her friendship is helpful or harmful to her depressed, self-destructive best friend, Claire.
North Carolina premiere
also showing Sun 5:45pm

MINE
(US, NR, 2004, 7 min)
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.

On the sharp edge of puberty, Halley is desperate to get inside the pretty girl circle. But the leader of the boys’ pack puts her on “Perm Row” where the girls are constantly grabbed, teased and fondled by the boys. That’s when Halley meets Billie, a “he-she” with a switchblade and a wicked smile she cannot resist. Mine was produced in Durham, NC.
North Carolina premiere

AFTERSCHOOL DELIGHT
(US, NR, 2003, 10 min)
Viewer's Guide: Brief nudity.



OFFICIAL SELECTION:
  2004 San Francisco Lesbian and
    Gay Film Festival
  2004 Miami Gay and Lesbian Film
    Festival

Twelve-year-old Scout and her best friend Angie spend an afternoon getting into and avoiding trouble.
North Carolina premiere

INTENT
(US, NR, 2004, 14 min)
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.

OFFICIAL SELECTION:
  2004 San Francisco Lesbian and
    Gay Film Festival
  2004 New York Lesbian and Gay
    Film Festival

In this concise murder hunt, a well-connected policewoman embarks on a personal crusade when the voyeuristic serial killer of lesbian couples, Eugene Burrows, enters her realm of influence. She needs evidence, and gets much closer to D.A. Alex Hansen to get it.
North Carolina premiere

SIMONE’S 24
(US, NR, 2004, 31 min)
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.

OFFICIAL SELECTION:
  2004 San Francisco Lesbian and
    Gay Film Festival

This sharp drama follows Simone’s adventures negotiating her sometimes-maddening world of relationship drama, identity politics and self-discovery.
North Carolina premiere
also showing Fri 1:40pm

TALL IN THE SADDLE
(US, NR, 2004, 6 min)
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.



OFFICIAL SELECTION:
  2004 San Francisco Lesbian and
    Gay Film Festival

Like a swift kick in the pants, Tall In The Saddle offers a peek into the world of “steers and queers.” Buckle-toting, bronco-riding, chap-clad, wrangler-wearing cowgirls, ranchwomen and rodeo girls strut their stuff in the original extreme sport of gay rodeo.
North Carolina premiere

WHERE THE GIRLS ARE
(US, NR, 2004, 29 min)
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.

OFFICIAL SELECTION:
  2004 New York Lesbian and Gay
    Film Festival
  2004 Miami Gay and Lesbian Film
    Festival


Sponsored by
  the North Carolina Steering Committee   for the HRC

It's the annual Dinah Shore weekend, and thousands of lesbians are in Palm Springs. The women are sexy, the parties are wild, but what do the locals think?

CLUB Q: The Legendary Dance Party For Women
(US, NR, 2004, 34 min)
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.



OFFICIAL WEBSITE:
www.clubqthemovie.com

Club Q was San Francisco’s legendary, once-a-month dance party for lesbian women and their friends, attracting more than 1,000 lesbian women of all colors, ages, sizes and backgrounds, to dance, sweat and celebrate to the pulsating beat of high-energy dance music. Q was a unique phenomenon for two reasons: the sheer number and diversity of lesbian women who attended, and the club’s longevity - it lasted for 15 years, maintaining its vitality in San Francisco’s ever-changing club scene. Promoter and DJ Page Hodel created Club Q to provide a space, “where all women would feel supported, represented, respected and welcomed.” This documentary is a vibrant witness to that vision.
North Carolina premiere

STRAP ‘EM DOWN: The World of Drag Kings
(US, NR, 2004, 4 min)
Viewer's Guide: Nudity.

OFFICIAL SELECTION:
  2004 San Francisco Lesbian and
    Gay Film Festival

A hot documentary that offers a timely look inside today’s most challenging cultural phenomenon: Drag Kings. A dynamic peek at art, sex, gender and race in this record of female gender-bending culture.
North Carolina premiere

BUTCH IN THE CITY
(US, NR, 2004, 7 min)
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.



OFFICIAL SELECTION:
  2004 San Francisco Lesbian and
    Gay Film Festival

Butch columnist, Terry Madshaw, decides to swing the other way in this hilarious send-up of the hit HBO series!
North Carolina premiere

MALLED
(Canada, NR, 2003, 9 min)
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.

Follow Tyler, an incredibly well dressed beacon of young queerness, through the midwestern mall where she works. She tries to sort out her future while surrounded by dancing girls, beauty queen children and constant consumerism in action.
North Carolina premiere

HUMMER
(US, NR, 2004, 10 min)
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.



OFFICIAL SELECTION:
  2004 San Francisco Lesbian and
    Gay Film Festival
  2004 Miami Gay and Lesbian
    Film Festival
  2004 New York Lesbian and Gay
    Film Festival
  2004 Sundance Film Festival

Love is blind…but it is deaf? Casey frantically prepares for a dinner party, at which she will introduce her new girlfriend Sam-a real catch in almost every way, but with a maddening habit of incessant, mindless humming! As the dinner party gets underway, will Casey ever get a clue?
North Carolina premiere

THE NEARLY UNADVENTUROUS LIFE OF ZOE CADWAULDER
(US, NR, 2004, 12 min)
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.

OFFICIAL SELECTION:
  2004 San Francisco Lesbian and
    Gay Film Festival
  2004 Miami Gay and Lesbian
    Film Festival
  2004 New York Lesbian and Gay
    Film Festival

Traumatized by a double death and a sequence of disasters, Zoe has to overcome her fears and phobias to find true love and adventure.
North Carolina premiere

THE UNDERGRAD
(US, NR, 2003, 39 min)
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.



FILMMAKERS SCHEDULED TO ATTEND!

OFFICIAL SELECTION:
  2004 San Francisco Lesbian and
    Gay Film Festival

Sponsored by Ronna Dornsife

OFFICIAL WEBSITE:
www.moefilm.com/theundergrad

The Undergrad is a sexy, gender-twisting Super-8 parody of The Graduate, with all the main characters played by women and drag kings; this playful celebration of both gender and sexual liberation investigates the choice of deviance, desire and acceptance.
North Carolina premiere

(Scenes from) TRASH: THE MOVIE
(US, NR, 2004, 10 min)
Viewer's Guide: Language.



FILMMAKER SCHEDULED TO ATTEND!

Be among the first to see “work-in-progress” excerpts from this hilarious upcoming comedy from the local team who brought you Camp: The Movie (NCGLFF, 2002).
North Carolina premiere

THE JOY OF BEING MARY
(US, NR, 2004, 10 min)
Viewer's Guide: Language.

FILMMAKER SCHEDULED TO ATTEND!

An exclusive, behind-the-curtain portrait of North Carolina’s most prolific drag queen, Mary K. Mart! Ever wonder what it is like to perform to packed bars of people and in the same week host Drag Bingo? Don’t miss this rare glimpse into the life of an underground superstar, filmed in Raleigh!
North Carolina premiere

DRAG BINGO: THE DOCUMENTARY
(US, NR, 2004, 28 min)
Viewer's Guide: Language.



FILMMAKER SCHEDULED TO ATTEND!

See Bingo Highs With The Drag Guys in this locally produced and filmed documentary. A delightful look into the popular fundraiser sweeping North Carolina.

THE RUBI GIRLS
(US, NR, 2003, 28 min)
Viewer's Guide: Language.



FILMMAKER SCHEDULED TO ATTEND!

OFFICIAL SELECTION:
  2003 San Francisco Lesbian and
    Gay Film Festival

OFFICIAL WEBSITE:
www.rubigirls.com

In conservative Ohio, a group of gay men in their 30s and 40s attract sold-out crowds to their charity-driven, comedic drag performances. Known as The Rubi Girls, this dynamic, close-knit troupe of professional men has been performing since the late 1980s. Combining live performance, interview and archival footage from “the early days,” this documentary not only traces the history of the “Girls” and their madcap antics, but also attempts to redefine the term “family values.”
North Carolina premiere

REPODYKE
(Canada, NR, 2004, 4 min)
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.

OFFICIAL SELECTION:
  2004 San Francisco Lesbian and
    Gay Film Festival

After a breakup, Laura hires Repodyke to retrieve her vacuum cleaner. If you want to avoid a visit by these lesbian repossession experts, never, never split up with your girlfriend.
North Carolina premiere

RED FLAG WOMEN
(US, NR, 2004, 10 min)
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.

There are several types of women. Some have personality traits that send up red flags.
North Carolina premiere

LITTLE BLACK BOOT
(US, NR, 2004, 16 min)
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.

OFFICIAL SELECTION:
  2004 San Francisco Lesbian and
    Gay Film Festival
  2004 Miami Gay and Lesbian
    Film Festival
  2004 New York Lesbian and Gay
    Film Festival

This modern Cinderella story centers around an unpopular high school girl (complete with patronizing stepmother and can’t-be-bothered stepsisters) on prom night. Enter Cindy’s best friend, Justin, in a borrowed car and tuxedo. Soon, Cindy intrigues the crowds and dances with the most popular girl in school...rushing off before midnight but not before losing her little black boot.
North Carolina premiere

BAD VIBES
(US, NR, 2003, 20 min)
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.

OFFICIAL SELECTION:
  2004 San Francisco Lesbian and
    Gay Film Festival

The uproarious short Bad Vibes follows KJYL reporter Anita Mann as she investigates the Texas Drug & Obscenity Task Force’s latest crackdown on sex toy users. In making this film, the crew actually broke the Texas law that criminalizes the possession of six or more dildos!
North Carolina premiere

A MI AMOR, MI DULCE
(US, NR, 2004, 23 min)
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.



OFFICIAL SELECTION:
  2004 Outfest Los Angeles
    Lesbian and Gay Film Festival

Set in two rival coffee shops in Echo Park, Los Angeles, this hilarious comedy crosses all lines of sexuality, gender and race. Honey and her cross-dressing brother, Chocolate, look for love while trying to save their beloved family bakery. Chocolate’s philandering Jamaican lover (who might get deported) and Honey’s unrequited love for the beautiful Pouncee are their hopeful mates, in this madcap romp about the lives of a few loveable misfits.
North Carolina premiere

LUCKY BUGGER
(England, NR, 2001, 3 min)
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.



OFFICIAL SELECTION:
  2004 San Francisco Lesbian and
    Gay Film Festival

Set on a deserted beach in the 1950s, a young boy witnesses a thrilling scene in the dunes.
North Carolina premiere

LUST FOR LEATHER
(US, NR, 2004, 4 min)
Viewer's Guide: Nudity, bondage and language.

This is Michael’s first time in a leather bar. When a leather stud picks him up, they’re both in for an unexpected surprise!
North Carolina premiere

LOOKING FOR MR. RIGHT
(US, NR, 2004, 4 min)
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.

OFFICIAL SELECTION:
  2003 San Francisco Lesbian and
    Gay Film Festival
  2004 Miami Gay and Lesbian
    Film Festival

A gay Everyman, with rather precise criteria in men, searches a bar for his fantasy man.
North Carolina premiere

FREUD SLIPS
(US, NR, 2004, 7 min)
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.

Sigmund Freud may have some issues of his own to work out when he visits a modern-day health club.
North Carolina premiere

STRAIGHT SEX
(US, NR, 2004, 8 min)
Viewer's Guide: Sexual situations and language.

Two queer friends try to have a baby together the old fashioned way in this hilarious short comedy.
North Carolina premiere

INVESTIGAYTION
(US, NR, 2004, 8 min)
Viewer's Guide: Language.



OFFICIAL WEBSITE:
www.filmpsychosis.com/investigaytion.htm

Uptight, conservative parents hire a private investigator to keep tabs on their son because they think he might be (gasp!) gay. The investigator is confused as to what he's expected to find, but he takes the job anyway and follows the son and his boyfriend around as they partake of such “seedy, high-risk activities” as grocery shopping, hanging out with friends and renting movies!
North Carolina premiere

RITCHIE’S ITCH
(US, NR, 2004, 11 min)
Viewer's Guide: Language.

OFFICIAL SELECTION:
  2004 San Francisco Lesbian and
    Gay Film Festival

Ritchie’s been having recurring homoerotic dreams that seem to over-titillate his construction site buddy.
North Carolina premiere

STAG PARTY
(US, NR, 2004, 15 min)
Viewer's Guide: Nudity and language.

At their pre-wedding dinner, Beth asks Best Man Steven if he is in love with her fiance, Dan. Steven admits he once had feelings for Dan---but he’s over it. But on the morning after the stag party, Steven wakes up naked next to...Dan.
North Carolina premiere

FRUITCAKE
(US, NR, 2004, 20 min)
Viewer's Guide: Sexual situations and nudity, language.



FILMMAKER SCHEDULED TO ATTEND!

Unexpected surprises are served with the holiday eggnog when two sisters bring their new boyfriends home for Christmas!
North Carolina premiere

STRAW HAT
(US, NR, 2004, 10 min)
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.



FILMMAKER SCHEDULED TO ATTEND!

From director Franko Galaso (Foxhole, 2003 NCGLFF) comes this charming fable that begins with a field, a lonely field. Straw Hat is a magical tale about looking beyond how we are created and answers the question, " Is every hat worth wearing?"
North Carolina premiere

PROPOSAL
(US, NR, 2004, 8 min)
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.



FILMMAKER SCHEDULED TO ATTEND!

OFFICIAL SELECTION:
  2004 San Francisco Lesbian and
    Gay Film Festival
  2004 New York Lesbian and Gay
    Film Festival

The Gallagher home is full of secrets. Tonight, Kevin is going to pop the question...only he wants to ask permission from Mr. Gallagher, who has a secret of his own. It’s just a matter of time before we see which secret pops out first. Director Franko Galaso (Foxhole, 2003 NCGLFF) offers us another humorous look at life in the queer lane.
North Carolina premiere

THE NIGHT LIFE
(Canada, NR, 2004, 8 min)
Viewer's Guide: Animated nudity and violence.



OFFICIAL SELECTION:
  2004 Miami Gay and Lesbian Film
    Festival

OFFICIAL WEBSITE:
http://www.greekchorus.com/night

This animated short is a gay zombie vampire film-noir comedy. Private eye Dick Gumshoe thinks he has seen it all before, until a blond muscleboy hires him for a “routine” missing-person case that will test his knowledge of the nightlife. Soon vampires, zombies, mummies and trolls are thrown together for a tasteful and restrained megacarnage splatterfest.
North Carolina premiere

CURRENT CONDITIONS
(Canada, NR, 2003, 8 min)
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.

See what happens when a shut-in invents a job for himself. Long hours, low pay, loads of fun.
North Carolina premiere

THE JUDAS KISS
(England, NR, 2002, 12 min)
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.



OFFICIAL SELECTION:
  2003 San Francisco Lesbian and
    Gay Film Festival

What sound does a heart make when it cracks? Told entirely through images, without the help of dialogue and underscored by the music of Handel, “The Judas Kiss” bounces around in time as Chris’s emotional response to the events of the night he will never forget unravels.
North Carolina premiere

TWO MINUTES AFTER MIDNIGHT
(England, NR, 2002, 12 min)
Viewer's Guide: Language and brief nudity.



OFFICIAL SELECTION:
  2004 Miami Gay and Lesbian Film
    Festival

After a brutal put-down in a bar, shy John retreats to the toilet to recover. There, an Angel gives him a magic ring: Think of someone you fancy, turn the ring around your finger three times, and you’ll be transformed into that person’s ultimate fantasy figure. Sound like fun?
North Carolina premiere

FAIRY TALES: Next Gen
(US, NR, 2004, 15 min)
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.



OFFICIAL SELECTION:
  2004 New York Lesbian and Gay FILM
    Festival

OFFICIAL WEBSITE:
www.newcombgoodwin.com

A hilarious animated story: all your favorite fairy tale characters are grown up and have marriage-aged children - and ten percent of them are gay. It’s Monty Python meets Cecil B. DeMille!
North Carolina premiere

STRAIGHT SEX
(US, NR, 2004, 8 min)
Viewer's Guide: Sexual situations and language.

Two queer friends try to have a baby together the old fashioned way in this hilarious short comedy.
North Carolina premiere

THE NEARLY UNADVENTUROUS LIFE OF ZOE CADWAULDER
(US, NR, 2004, 12 min)
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.

OFFICIAL SELECTION:
  2004 San Francisco Lesbian and
    Gay Film Festival
  2004 Miami Gay and Lesbian
    Film Festival
  2004 New York Lesbian and Gay
    Film Festival

Traumatized by a double death and a sequence of disasters, Zoe has to overcome her fears and phobias to find true love and adventure.
North Carolina premiere

SUCCUBUS
(US, NR, 2004, 24 min)
Viewer's Guide: Language.



OFFICIAL SELECTION:
  2004 San Francisco Lesbian and
    Gay Film Festival

OFFICIAL WEBSITE:
www.succubusthemovie.com

Only a class full of misfits and a mutant blob of sperm can save the day in Succubus, a send-up of bad 1950s sci-fi and scream-queen movies. After botching an experiment in her back alley sperm bank, a mad scientist dupes a drunken housewife into a scheme to turn every man, woman and child into a lesbian with her diabolical “lezzy” ray gun.
North Carolina premiere

DONOR
(US, NR, 2004, 29 min)
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.



OFFICIAL SELECTION:
  2004 San Francisco Lesbian and
    Gay Film Festival
  Best Dramatic-Comedy Short,
    2003 NY Independent Film
    and Video Festival
  Naso d’Oro Award,
    2003 Spokane Northwest
    International Film Festival

OFFICIAL WEBSITE:
www.adelewilson.com/donor

How do you make your sperm donation in the bathroom when you know that your sister and her partner can hear you in the next room? Such are the challenges facing Rob as he sets off to become the “father” of his sister Mels and Ellen’s baby.
North Carolina premiere

OBEDIENCE
(Canada, NR, 2002, 14 min)
Viewer's Guide: Sexual situations.



OFFICIAL SELECTION:
  2004 San Francisco Lesbian and
    Gay Film Festival
  2004 New York Lesbian and Gay
    Film Festival

Perhaps the most controversial short feature in this year’s festival, Obedience is a gothic story of family, power, sex and cruelty. A wealthy landowner battles his wayward son in a southern gothic story, set in 19th-century South Carolina that provides a harsh, unflinching look at the results of racism and abuse.
North Carolina premiere

NIGHTSHADOWS
(US, NR, 2004, 16 min)
Viewer's Guide: Strong violence and gore, language, sexual situations and nudity.



OFFICIAL WEBSITE:
http://nightshadowsfilm.com

A horror film not for the squeamish! Not all is at it seems when two men hook up over the Internet, especially when one of these hunks is a Book-of-the-Dead-reading psychopath in search of eternal life. But as the nightshadows fall, he discovers that revenge is not confined to the living.
North Carolina premiere

CUDDLER
(US, NR, 2003, 17 min)
Viewer's Guide: Sexual situations and nudity, language.

From director Phillip B. Roth comes this sexy drama about a hardened callboy's unexpected experiences as seen through the lens of pre- and post-Stonewall America.
North Carolina premiere

BLESSING
(US, NR, 2004, 17 min)
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.

WINNER! EMERGING FILM AWARD, BEST MEN'S SHORT

OFFICIAL SELECTION:
  2004 San Francisco Lesbian and
    Gay Film Festival

Bill Dunn, a devout Mormon in his late sixties, has suffered a heart attack. In keeping with tradition, a Mormon Bishop and two of Bill’s sons prepare to give him a “Priesthood” blessing. Tensions rise when gay son David asks to be included and the brothers object, claiming that David is not worthy to participate in this sacred ritual.
North Carolina premiere

ONE DAY
(Australia, NR, 2004, 21 min)
Viewer's Guide: Sexual situations and nudity, language.



OFFICIAL SELECTION:
  2004 San Francisco Lesbian and
    Gay Film Festival

Michael is about to lose both his three-year relationship with John and his hot and steamy gym affair with Robbie.
North Carolina premiere

REPODYKE
(Canada, NR, 2004, 4 min)
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.

OFFICIAL SELECTION:
  2004 San Francisco Lesbian and
    Gay Film Festival

After a breakup, Laura hires Repodyke to retrieve her vacuum cleaner. If you want to avoid a visit by these lesbian repossession experts, never, never split up with your girlfriend.
North Carolina premiere

BUTCH IN THE CITY
(US, NR, 2004, 7 min)
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.



OFFICIAL SELECTION:
  2004 San Francisco Lesbian and
    Gay Film Festival

Butch columnist, Terry Madshaw, decides to swing the other way in this hilarious send-up of the hit HBO series!
North Carolina premiere

HAND-SOME
(US, NR, 2004 12 min)
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.



OFFICIAL SELECTION:
  2004 New York Lesbian and Gay
    Film Festival
  2004 San Francisco Lesbian and
    Gay Film Festival

OFFICIAL WEBSITE:
www.g6pictures.com

In Hand-Some, filmmaker Giovanna Chesler documents her sister’s dissolving lesbian relationship and comes to a realization about her own sexuality.
North Carolina premiere

ONE DYKE WORE WHITE
(Canada, NR, 2004, 48 min)
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.

Take one Cadillac crammed full of fun-loving lesbians with only a map and the sun as their guide. Add in a trip from Seattle to Calgary for the purpose of obtaining a legally binding marriage recognized in the Canadian courts. The result is a romp from stuffy backseat to crowded elevator to hotel room confessionals, in which these women laugh and tease each other toward a new kind of family.
North Carolina premiere

DRAG QUEEN HEIST
(US, NR, 2004, 20 min)
Viewer's Guide: Language.



FILMMAKER SCHEDULED TO ATTEND!

OFFICIAL SELECTION:
  2004 New York Lesbian and Gay
    Film Festival

OFFICIAL WEBSITE:
www.skyangelfilms.com/dragqueenheist

Lovers Jared and Bobby throw a twist into a bank robbery in this hilarious comedy short.
North Carolina premiere

DAVID AND GOLIATH
(US, NR, 2002, 22 min)
Viewer's Guide: Sexual situations and language.

FILMMAKER SCHEDULED TO ATTEND!

A skinny "David," just beginning to enter the world of gyms and sweaty men, falls for a "Goliath."
North Carolina premiere

MY PORN STAR
(US, NR, 2003, 30 min)
Viewer's Guide: Nudity and language.

FILMMAKER SCHEDULED TO ATTEND!

When burnt-out flight attendant Paul meets washed up porn-star Mitch, Paul decides that he can solve both men's problems by becoming a documentary film maker…and his first project is to be the Career of Mitch!
North Carolina premiere

TEMPTED
(US, NR, 2004, 7 min)
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.

FILMMAKERS SCHEDULED TO ATTEND!

In a period of 7 minutes, a couple goes from talking about what to do on a lazy Sunday afternoon to whether they are meant to be.
North Carolina premiere

A WOMAN REPORTED
(US, NR, 2004, 5 min)
Viewer's Guide: Violence.

OFFICIAL SELECTION:
  2004 San Francisco Lesbian and
    Gay Film Festival

In the brief moments before a hate crime, a young woman imagines her escape. Starring Moira Kelly (The West Wing, The Cutting Edge).
North Carolina premiere

YOU’RE STILL YOUNG
(US, NR, 2004, 11 min)
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.



WINNER! EMERGING FILM AWARD, BEST WOMEN'S SHORT

FILMMAKERS SCHEDULED TO ATTEND!

OFFICIAL SELECTION:
  2004 Outfest
  2004 Philadelphia International
    Gay and Lesbian Film Festival

OFFICIAL WEBSITE:
www.greeniefilms.com

Becky, a despondent 16-year old, is in love with a girl at school and is suffering from the alienation that is not uncommon for a sexually confused teen. She takes stock of the situation and contemplates suicide until a mysterious stranger takes an interest in her life, her pain and most importantly, her future.
North Carolina premiere

NIGHT BLUE
(Canada, NR, 2002, 22 min)
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.

The characters and story in this film are the result of a collaborative improvisation between the actors and director. Restless Maani shuttles from hotel to airport on the international fashion circuit, while obsessed Nina holes up in her studio, dreaming of designs for her antique fabrics and delicate beads.
North Carolina premiere

THE RULES
(US, NR, 2004, 29 min)
Viewer's Guide: Violence.



OFFICIAL SELECTION:
  2004 Toronto Lesbian and Gay
    Film and Video Festival
  2004 Melbourne Queer Film Festival
  2004 Montreal International Queer
    Film Festival

Kyla and Melanie engage in a game with rules each of them yearns to break. Every boundary crossed increases the euphoria---and the risk.
North Carolina premiere

BETWEEN THE BOYS
(US, NR, 2004, 4 min)
Viewer's Guide: Nudity.

Exploring a relationship between two young men, Between the Boys voyeuristically glimpses the complex reality of sexual experimentation and adult emotions.
North Carolina premiere

STEVEN’S SIN
(US, NR, 2004, 15 min)
Viewer's Guide: Sexual situations and language.

OFFICIAL SELECTION:
  2004 San Francisco Lesbian and
    Gay Film Festival

Nineteen-year-old Steven, a Mormon, leaves home and gets mixed up with his unorthodox roommate.
North Carolina premiere

ONE FINE MORNING
(US, NR, 2002, 16 min)
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.



OFFICIAL SELECTION:
  2003 San Francisco Lesbian and
    Gay Film Festival

In this bittersweet back-to-school comedy, Goth high school senior Adam gears up to face Matt, the boy of his fantasies. We learn through asides that Adam had penned Matt a song the previous school year. Now, the suspenseful morning has come for Adam to find out if Matt understood the song's hidden meaning.
North Carolina premiere

OUR FATHER
(US, NR, 2002, 28 min)
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.

Upon the death of their father, two brothers discover a stash of old love letters written to him. How the two men each deal with the realization of their father’s secret is the core of this dramatically compelling short feature.
North Carolina premiere

BLESSING
(US, NR, 2004, 17 min)
Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.

WINNER! EMERGING FILM AWARD,
  BEST MEN'S SHORT

OFFICIAL SELECTION:
  2004 San Francisco Lesbian and
    Gay Film Festival

Bill Dunn, a devout Mormon in his late sixties, has suffered a heart attack. In keeping with tradition, a Mormon Bishop and two of Bill’s sons prepare to give him a “Priesthood” blessing. Tensions rise when gay son David asks to be included and the brothers object, claiming that David is not worthy to participate in this sacred ritual.
North Carolina premiere

NINA
(Australia, NR, 2003, 10 min)
Viewer's Guide: Brief nudity.



OFFICIAL SELECTION:
  2004 San Francisco Lesbian and
    Gay Film Festival

Nina yearns to be a special girl and meet the man of her dreams. But life for this Filipino transsexual in Sydney is filled with isolation and displacement. Nina is a truly courageous and moving portrait of Noni Benito reflecting on four years of living in Australia through her journey of transformation.
North Carolina premiere

THE COOKIE PROJECT
(US, NR, 2004, 60 min)
Viewer's Guide: Nudity and graphic medical procedures.

FILMMAKER SCHEDULED TO ATTEND!

At age 42, Delwin changed his life forever when he flew to Bangkok, Thailand, for a sex-change operation. This fascinating, unflinching film documents Cookie’s transformation into a transsexual lesbian, who finally feels fulfilled, satisfied that the outside of her body reflects what she feels inside.
North Carolina premiere

TRANSAMAZON: A Gender Queer Journey
(US, NR, 2004, 41 min)
Viewer's Guide: Language.

Joelle, a self-styled transgender warrior, struggles to carve out a place for herself in the world. She explores the evolving definitions of transgender culture and radical changes to the gender binary.
North Carolina premiere